As y’all can see, I’ve done another theme. This time it’s ‘Pool’ by Borja Fernandez. I’ve modeled the width, margins and padding to my modified ‘DayDream’ theme by Jim Whimpey and kept my colors for the background, content (wrapper or container), some borders the same. I left the light blue colors for some of the font.
The first challenge was finding the correct combination of margin, padding and width for the body and content (wrapper or container) to center the overall fixed width of 750px to my weblog. The solid 3px borders helped me to determine how well the top portions containing my posts and pages (above) line up with the sidebar (or bottombar) below.
I further tested the three screen resolutions, my favorite 800 x 600 for the largest viewing, and two others — 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024. My goal was to accommodate my large fonts at 1em for various screen pixels as well as the ‘Change Zoom Level’ for those with Internet Explorer browsers. I am proud once again to have made my ‘ideal’ weblog look perfect (to me at least).
Another annoyance but a good learning experience was how to ‘position’ that search bar. It was originally set to ‘relative’ and I didn’t like how it moved around with various screen resolutions and browser zooms. So I tested some more and found a position of ‘static’ worked well. The ‘margin’ was weird at -70px and 10px, with the padding at 0px.
I had to adjust one widget, the ‘Category Cloud’, from a ‘Maximum font percentage’ of 275 to 145 because the ‘font height’ of the ‘sidebar’ wouldn’t accommodate the word of my largest category, ‘Poetry’, which disappeared behind one of the widget below. I’ll have to look into the CSS stylesheet to find out if I could adjust the ‘font height’ of the ‘tag cloud’ itself without affecting the ‘font height’ of the ‘sidebar’ generally.
The main reason I replaced the ‘DayDream’ theme with the ‘Pool’ theme was because I needed to see my timestamp for all posts and archives. And the data (date, time, category, tags, comments and edit) is located underneath the title to each post, not pages unfortunately. And the fonts for the data are small enough for my purpose with the ‘main’ header (or title) to the pages and posts centered nicely at font size of 1.5em.
My only gripe with this theme is that the header ‘description’ for my epitaph is not included. I’ll need to figure out how to insert a one line text for my ‘Tagline’ underneath my ‘Blog title’: Flynn’s Blog with font size of 2em. I don’t think there is a CSS program that will allow for this particular feature of mine. Nothing is perfect!
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